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P.-E.-]ERANCKE ORNAMENTATION 0F FRAME MOLDINGS.

Patented Jan. 29, 1884 NA PETERS. Pwn-um mr, Waihinglom n c U ITE-I)STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP FRANOKE, or SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

ORNAMIENTATION OF FRAME-MOLDINGSQ.

SPECIFICATION forming part of-Letters Patent No. 292,552, dated January29, 1884,

Y .Applicfation filed September 1s,1ss3. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it-known that I, PHILIP E. FRANOKE, of the city and county of SanFrancisco, and'State of California, have invented an Improvement inOrnamentation of Frame-Moldings; and I hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to the ornamentatio of frame and other" moldings;and it consists of a means for forming and applying the plas-v ticmaterial of which the ornaments are composed, so that it is formed andapplied to the molding in a continuous strip by means of a cylindricalpattern drum or wheel, as will be more fully explained by reference tothe accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of myapparatus. Fig. 2 is an end View, showing the face of thepattern-cylinder. Fig. 3 is an enlarged section of the pattern-cylinder.Fig. 4 is a view of the trimming knife or cutter.

In the ornamentation of frame and other moldings a plastic material isemployed, and this is usually formed in lengths bya straight pattern ormold, into which it is compressed, and afterward is fixed or cementedupon the molding. This process is slow andtedious, and my invention isdesigned to producea continuous strip and attach it at one operation.

A is a cylinder or drum, having the desired scroll or pattern formed andsunk into its face. This drum has a shaft turning in boxes B upon aframe-work, 0. Below this cylinder is a second cylinder, D, the shaft ofwhich turns in boxes E,which have adjusting-screws F and nuts, by whichthey may be raised or lowered, so as to move the face of the cylinder Dnearer to or farther from the cylinder A. The face of the cylinder D isserrated, roughened, or provided with teeth, and when the molding ispassed between the .cylinders, the distance between them being adjustedto suit the thickness of the particular molding, these teeth will causethe molding to advance as the cylindersare rotated. The material ofwhich the ornamental figures are formed is mixed in a plastic condition,and is applied so as to be forced into the indented figures on thepattern-drun1 A. The molding has its surface prepared in the usualmanner, so that the material will adhere to it as fast as prepared andapplied, and it is thus passed [between the drums. The plastic materialbeing fed in is continually forced into the indented pattern upon thedrum A, and will adhere to upon a bent arm, H.

the molding as it passes between the cylinders or drums, being thusquickly made and applied.

G is a rotary cutter, mounted so as to turn This arm passes through ahole in a plate, I, and may be adjusted up or down by means of aset-screw, J. The plate I is secured upon the frame or table, so thatthe cutter will travel upon the surface of the molding, so as to trimoff the edge of the ornamental strip as fast as it is applied, and thusleave it even and clean.

' The drum A is formed in two halves,which are fitted between disks K,Fig. 3,where they are held'firmly by clamping-screws. By thisconstruction I am enabled to remove and change the drums for differentpatterns whenever desired. The outer ends of the drumshafts havegear-wheels L L, which mesh together, and thus cause them to turn inunison when power is applied to drive them.

, It will be manifest that the molding could beadvanced by othermeans-such as a straight rack or table equal to its length, but I preferthe cylinder as here shown.

0 Having thus described my inve11tion,what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an apparatus for forming ornamental designs in plastic materialsand applying them to molding in continuous strips, the revolvingpattern-cylinder A, the material being compressed in said cylinder, incombination with the adjustable feed-cylinder D, adapted to advance themolding, the driving-gears L L, secured to their shafts and meshing witheach other, and the adjustable cutter G, by which means the material istrimmed after" it is applied to. the frame, all substantially asdescribed, and for the purposes set forth.

2. In' an apparatus for forming ornamental designs in plastic materialsandapplying them to moldings in continuous strips, the revolvingcylinder A, in which the material is compressed, in combination with theadjustable feed-cylinder D and the gears L L, secured to theirshafts andmeshingwith each other, where by they are revolved toward each other,substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

' l PHILIP 1*]. FRANOKE. \Vitnesses:

S. H. NoUnsn,

H. C. LEE.

